I have been involved in a major experiment on chimpanzees, trying to boost or draw out their intelligence so they can communicate with man.
I am in the laboratory. A chimp seems to be playing baseball with coconuts and it has a fantastic eye for hitting. There is also a discussion about a picture (done by the chimp) that we believe represents a perfect copy of an ancient symbol. It has been folded in half and is a bit ragged where the paint has stuck and torn the paper. The image is an amalgam of purple and pink, but there is no clear image within it. I think the chimp artist had the power of speech. Indeed it was quite fluent.
Now I am watching an army unit marching along a suburban street that looks like Deakin in Canberra. The street scenery transforms and it is now in the midst of a tropical forest. This is a war zone. The army unit leader is talking (to the media?) about how chimps have been integrated successfully into the unit. They are accepted by, have bonded with and communicate effectively with the soldiers.
The only "problem" is that the unit’s progress can be slowed by the chimps’ need to communicate with wild chimps they meet along the way. This does not faze the unit leader, who sees it as positive.
Somehow linked into this dream is another scene in which I and some other people, including my 10-year-old daughter, are jumping into a large pond of the sort you see in a zoo enclosure. Small elephants are being thrown in and expanding (just add water). My daughter thinks they are very big and I say that while this is so, there are bigger ones. At this point, a larger elephant is added to the mix - a five metres tall elephant.
Note:
I had this dream recently while we were on holiday in Bali. We saw monkeys there and went on an elephant safari.
Dream edited for easier reading - JT, 2005
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